The gunman entered the lobby of the organization’s Chinatown headquarters around 10:45 and expressed disagreement with the conservative group’s policy positions, Fox News has learned. When the guard, who was not identified, asked him where he was going, he opened fire, according to police.

“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. ”He did his job. The person never made it past the front.”

The guard, who was not identified, was shot in the arm and was conscious after the shooting and was in stable condition. The gunman, who also was not identified, was being questioned by the FBI, sources said. Sources said he is in his twenties.

The suspect “made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard,” a source told Fox News. WJLA-TV7 reported the suspect was also shot. Sources also said the gunman may have been carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A, the embattled fast-food restaurant whose president came under fire from gay activists after he said he did not agree with same-sex marriage.

Sources told Fox New that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”

Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism, although James McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said authorities do not yet know the gunman’s motive.

Our prayers go to the speedy recovery of the security guard who is being called a hero for stopping this apparent act of political violence.

EVERY major LGBT rights organization, from GLAAD to the Human Rights Campaign as well as the ACLU, Stonewall Democrats, Log Cabin GOP and Fair Wisconsin have loudly and clearly condemned the terrible act by Floyd Lee Corkins,

Here is what “Lefty” Gay groups are saying about the shooting at the offices of the FRC, – A Joint statement regarding shooting at Family Research Council (FRC) from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations:

We were saddened to hear news of the shooting this morning at the offices of the Family Research Council. Our hearts go out to the shooting victim, his family, and his co-workers.

The motivation and circumstances behind today’s tragedy are still unknown, but regardless of what emerges as the reason for this shooting, we utterly reject and condemn such violence. We wish for a swift and complete recovery for the victim of this terrible incident.

In 2011, 30 fatally violent hate crimes were committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender victims, 3 more than the previous year’s total. That is more murders motivated by anti-gay bias occurring last year than any year since the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs began collecting data in 1998.

The Response by Social Conservative Activists, Bloggers, Media and Advocacy groups including the FRC? – Total Silence.

James, nobody is saying the FRC somehow is responsible for the terrible act of domestic terrorism they suffered yesterday. And “Lefty” churches like St Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco are praying for the brave victim and his family and friends and the FRC in the wake of this criminal attack.

The mental state of the gun man and his motives are still not known. So for you to say he is from the “political left” is as cheap and opportunistic a unfounded statement as those who rushed to blame the Tea Party for the shooting in Oak Creek.

Let me give you some facts. No LGBT rights group has EVER called for conservative Christians to be rounded up, imprisoned and killed. The FRC has made that statement about Gay and Lesbian Americans, No LGBT “Lefty” group has ever said things about the Christian Right like:

” Gays are like a gun to the head of America. That’s what we’re talking about whenever you’re talking about gay rights. You’re talking about giving somebody a gun to put at the head of anybody who disagrees with them, whether it’s the Boy Scouts, whether it’s a local dry-cleaning establishment or a giant corporation like Shell Oil.” – Robert Knight, http://www.frc.org/net/st96d2.html

If the “left” ever said anything about your or about Conservative Christians that even came CLOSE to what the FRC has been saying about LGBT Americans and their families for more than 20 years, The Christian Right would be calling for marshal law and suspension of the First Amendment.

I could go on and on here James. But this isn’t about you or your blog, which I greatly enjoy. And I have never ascribed the vile hatred that is regularly spewed by the Family Research Council, to you . I consider you to be a good friend and still to this day, one of the best political minds in the United States,

We both l agree that any act of Domestic Terrorism is a tragedy and the gunman who attacked the FRC offices should face as swift and fair a prosecution as we would do with any domestic terrorist. But to make any sort of comparison equating the violence committed against the FRC yesterday with the massive litany of domestic terror and murder committed against LGBT groups and citizens, just makes you look either wilfully dishonest, or just plain stupid.

Tell me again about the Peaceful Left and the Peaceful Christian Right? By their words and actions Ye Shall Know them…

and yet… you may wanna take a look at the very “sensitive” post written by the excuse of a blogger known as Democurmudgeon. He seems to combine vengeance with paranoia into a delightful cocktail of crap. His particular culinary specialty. He asks “how do THEY like it, the tables being turned etc etc. and his phrase is “what goes around comes around.
His premise (the paranoid part) seems to be that it has not been individuals with guns making bad personal choices with the Sikh and other shootings, but instead he seems to perceive these attacks as some sort of organized offensive planned and executed by republicans and conservative groups upon innocent DEMOCRAT people. I guess the batman shooter (in DEmocurmudgeon’s world) was a REPUBLICAN and the people in the theater were ALL DEMOCRATS. These gunmen this year have not been attacking random citizens, it has (as is everything) been Republicans v. Democrats.
if not, his “how do they like the tables being turned” and the rest of his decidedly bloodthirsty post make no sense.
FRC has not been orchestrating armed attacks. How can it be “turned tables”? He is always spewing out the biggest logic-fails I have ever seen, but this one really goes over the line. I do not know what he is put on the radio nor why he is tolerated as any kind of representative of the left. He seems to be a horrible person. I don’t get that.
Furthermore, I think it’s impossible for anyone to posit the question “How do YOU like it now” without that being obviously saturated with a sick and sadistic kind of glee. How do you like THIS *smack* and THIS *smack*
That’s his basic idea, and it’s pretty disturbing.
So we see Democurmudgeon feeling a righteous happiness at the attack because it was on FRC, Suddenly gunplay is awesome and they deserve it. Now we know all his anti-gun ranting is simply a reaction formation and a “methinks milady doth protest over much” kind of cover up for his own hate and bloodthirstiness. oops I can’t say ‘coverup” because he’s a hater and always has been and is and pretty overt about it. The guy is a guttural minded bully and a not very subtle one at that.
No ideology or party affiliation provides immunity from human depravity, violence and poor character. Nor does NOT owning a gun mean you are a “nice guy” and never hurt anyone and never have violent impulses. You don’t need a gun to be a horror. Neither Left nor Right is peaceful. As a citizen of these here United States in 2012 I can swear that this is not Peace that I and my fellows have been experiencing. Politicians and their cohorts are tearing this country (and this planet) apart. AND they are having a big pile of fun while they’re doing it.
And might I add, inciting violence and goading unbalanced persons to act by way of constant doomsday harping and hate speech and relentless dehumanization of the “other side” does not put political persons in a postion of blamelessness.
Politicians, think tanks, propagandists, talking heads and all the spinmeisters who are having soooo much fun these days are having a bad effect on people who should not be goaded into violent action, believing they are “saving the planet”. The sense of urgency and hate that spews from our “leaders” and our “communicators” each day is irresponsible and destructive. Working diligently to tear down our social institutions and cast aspersions and suspicion on each and every institution is massively destructive and what DO we leave our children now? We have torn down faith in media, courts, everything. all for the sake of spin and momentary political advantage. Conservatives and Liberals alike show NO regard or respect for institutions or principles anymore.
It isn’t guns that kill people – it’s people hyped up on mental illness and CONSTANT hate-filled propaganda that kill people.There is plenty of shame to go around but the people who should be feeling that shame won’t be. They’ll all be too high on their own Righteousness.
The End.

Having never heard of Democurmudgeon I don’t know who that is, or what he/she/it believes . If you want to play tit- for tat with nutty insane blog postings we can do that until the grandcows of the cows come home. We are not talking about blogs nobody reads, we are taking about one of the most significant players in Conservative /GOP policy formulation and development.

If you want I could repost tens of thousands of blog posts that said Matthew Shepherd “had it coming” or that AIDS is God just “Cleaning House” You found ONE blogger who suggests that the FRC shooting was Karmic chickens coming home to roost.. Wow. Congrats. I can give you clips of FRC officials on NATIONAL TELEVISION saying that Gay and Lesbian Americans deserve to be put to death. The FRC has been waging a mulit-billion dollar campaign of hatred and demunization against LGBT Americans for over twenty years. Now they claim they can’t be criticized for the impact of that, because one disturbed individual with a gun, attacked them.

Find me a Christian Teen who has committed suicide because something a Gay Rights group has said about Christians… find me one. Just one. ANYWhere and you might, have the infinitesimal beginnings of a point.

I’m sorry that some nut tried to go on a shooting rampage at FRC’s headquarters – violence is never the answer, even if you are an officially designated hate group that routinely defames millions of Americans in order to further the discrimination and suffering they face daily. But one shooter’s insanity doesn’t change who they are, what they’ve said, and what they’ve done for over two decades.

There IS NO equivalency here. And trying to create one, as I said before, just makes you look incredibly stupid.

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